Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exploded a 20-megaton bomb, has succeeded in reducing fallout from H-bombs by at least...
...little late in our section in recognizing that all men are created equal." If Faubus thought Johnson's remarks were aimed at him, he took the fact blandly; indeed, before he left he observed that Lyndon would make a fine President. He was also unruffled when a telephoned bomb threat set cops to swarming around the auditorium: "I was 300 days in combat with the infantry, so I'm not easily disturbed by such things...
...Blast of Bombs. This sort of prediction, oratorical in many areas of the South, has to be taken with seriousness in Vulcan's city. Reason: in the last decade, by minimal count of Birmingham's white newspapers, there have already been 22 dynamite bombings and four arson burnings at tributable to race tensions. Fountain Heights and North Smithfield, where Negroes, with a go-ahead from federal courts, began moving in nine years ago to break the city's segregated housing patterns, are now known as "Dynamite Hill." The $18,000 home of the Negro woman...
This is why, in the death of leadership, the silence of fear, the bomb blasts of hatred, Birmingham, Vulcan's crucible, is the toughest city in the South, and likely to get tougher. It is also why the voice of a police chief, Bull Connor, has emerged as the voice of one of the great cities...
...Americans are all horribly afraid; they've seen what the bomb can do and they've read the stories. They're scared. But they can't articulate this fear. They know what to say about the new school they want, or lower taxes, but they can't express their fear of atomic war. They're even a little afraid of trying to. And they don't want to look silly...